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Men Are Healing

The WellMen Project

We don’t fix men. We remember with them.

The Well Men Project is a brotherhood restoring what was lost when modern culture replaced initiation with isolation.

We teach men how to live with anxiety, depression, loneliness, and anger

not by numbing it, bypassing it, or suppressing it

but by meeting it with tools rooted in ancient knowledge,

embodied practice, emotional honesty, and community healing.

Our work is not just about stopping the bleeding,

but healing the wound beneath it

the wound of disconnection, of silence, of forgotten rites.

Through weekly councils, medicine lodges, Eldership Skillshares and wisdom for different cultures.

With rites of passage anchored in integrity,

we guide men to shed shame, build emotional literacy,

and reclaim their role as protectors, feelers, and stewards of life.

This is not performance. This is remembrance.

Because when a man heals,

he doesn’t just change his life—

he shifts the legacy for generations.

This is the work. This is the way.

And it’s working.

How We Remember

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Medicine Lodge and Ceremony

Where the fire remembers and the stones listen.
This is where we sweat, sing, scream, and surrender.

The lodge is not a performance.

It’s where men meet their shadows, purge their shame, and rise with sacred breath.

We follow the old ways — prayer, discipline, and brotherhood.

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Retreats and Remembering

You don’t need another getaway. You need a return.

Our retreats aren’t about escape,

they’re about excavation.

We leave behind the noise, the masks, the scrolling — and step into a space where the ancestors whisper,
the earth holds, and you remember who you were before the world told you who to be.
Because most men have only known false initiation —through shame, isolation, humiliation, porn, alcohol, or violence. We were taught to numb instead of feel, to dominate instead of listen, to perform instead of belong.

Here, we do it differently.

We sweat. We grieve. We remember.
We learn to process and purify our wounds,
to break without collapsing,
and to rise without abandoning our hearts.
This is not a retreat.
This is an initiation into what’s real
responsibility, integrity, love, and lineage.

Weekly Menswork

We work and process the guilt, the anger, the numbness and the many wounds we carry.

We bring it into the circle, not to be judged,
but to be worked.

Week after week, we build and heal through consistency and Menswork,
we develop the wounds to heal, instead of just stopping the bleeding by coping.

This is what your father didn’t have.
This is what your son needs you to do.

Walk with us

You’ve done hard things alone. Now do the sacred ones together. This is where initiation begins, not by force, but by choice.

We’re Not a Brand. We’re a Return.

The Well Men Project is a nonprofit movement reclaiming brotherhood, ceremony, and emotional responsibility.

We’re not here to sell you a lifestyle — we’re here to invite you back to your life.

This is where men gather to unlearn the noise, remember the sacred, and rebuild the village — together.

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